Professor Sheila Fitzpatrick

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Sheila Fitzpatrick is primarily a historian of modern Russia, especially the Stalin period, but has recently added a transnational dimension with her research on displaced persons (DPs) after the Second World War. She received a Mellon Foundation Distinguished Achievement Award in 2002 and the American Historical Association’s Award for Scholarly Distinction in 2012. She is past President of the Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies (formerly AAASS) and a member of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Having worked for most of her career in the United States, she moved back to Australia in 2012.

As a historian of twentieth-century Russia, her earlier work focused mainly on Soviet social and cultural history in the Stalin period, particularly social mobility, social identity and everyday practice. Using some of the techniques of her “everyday” work, she has just finished her first major study in political history: On Stalin’s Team: the Years of Living Dangerously in Soviet Politics, which will be published by Princeton University Press in August. My Father’s Daughter, her memoir of her father, the radical historian Brian Fitzpatrick, and her childhood in Melbourne came out in 2010, and she published a memoir of life as a student in Cold War Moscow in the 1960s, A Spy in the Archives in 2012. She is currently co-CI (with Mark Edele) of an ARC-funded project entitled “War, Displacement and Resettlement: SUBTITLE,” as well as working on a more personal DP study based on the correspondence of her late husband, the physicist Michael Danos, and his mother Olga when they were displaced persons in postwar Germany.

Fitzpatrick, S. (2014). The Cold War as remembered by the children of the Old Left. In Ann Curthoys, Joy Damousi (Eds.), What Did You Do in the Cold War, Daddy? Personal Stories from a Troubled Time, (pp. 264-277). Sydney: NewSouth Publishing.

Fitzpatrick, S. (2013). Afterword: The Thaw in Retrospect. In Denis Kozlov and Eleonory Gilburd (Eds.), The Thaw: Soviet Society and Culture during the 1950s and 1960s, (pp. 482-491). Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Fitzpatrick, S. (2012). On the Trail of Nikolai Miklouho-Maclay: A Russian-Australian Encounter with the Antipodes. In Kate Fullagar (Eds.), The Atlantic World in the Antipodes: Effects and Transformations since the Eighteenth Century, (pp. 166-184). Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Fitzpatrick, S. (2012). Things under Socialism: the Soviet Experience. In Frank Trentmann (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the History of Consumption, (pp. 451-466). Oxford: Oxford University Press. [More Information]

Fitzpatrick, S., Ludtke, A. (2008). Energizing the Everyday: On the Breaking and Making of Social Bonds in Nazism and Stalinism. In M. Geyer & S. Fitzpatrick (Eds.), Beyond Totalitarianism: Nazism and Stalinism Compared. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Fitzpatrick, S. (2014). The Cold War as remembered by the children of the Old Left. In Ann Curthoys, Joy Damousi (Eds.), What Did You Do in the Cold War, Daddy? Personal Stories from a Troubled Time, (pp. 264-277). Sydney: NewSouth Publishing.

2013

Fitzpatrick, S. (2013). A Spy in the Archives. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press.

Fitzpatrick, S. (2013). Afterword: The Thaw in Retrospect. In Denis Kozlov and Eleonory Gilburd (Eds.), The Thaw: Soviet Society and Culture during the 1950s and 1960s, (pp. 482-491). Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Fitzpatrick, S. (2012). On the Trail of Nikolai Miklouho-Maclay: A Russian-Australian Encounter with the Antipodes. In Kate Fullagar (Eds.), The Atlantic World in the Antipodes: Effects and Transformations since the Eighteenth Century, (pp. 166-184). Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Fitzpatrick, S. (2012). Things under Socialism: the Soviet Experience. In Frank Trentmann (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the History of Consumption, (pp. 451-466). Oxford: Oxford University Press. [More Information]

Fitzpatrick, S., Ludtke, A. (2008). Energizing the Everyday: On the Breaking and Making of Social Bonds in Nazism and Stalinism. In M. Geyer & S. Fitzpatrick (Eds.), Beyond Totalitarianism: Nazism and Stalinism Compared. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Fitzpatrick, S., Rasmussen, C. (2008). Political Tourists: Travellers from Australia to the Soviet Union in the 1920s-1940s. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press.